Poets

Katica Kulavkova (December 21, 1951) is a full member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2003. In 2014, she became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg, Austria (EASA). Since September 2008, she is a Vice President of PEN International. She is a poet, literary theorist, essayist, anthologist, storyteller, university professor, and academician, writing in Macedonian. Her main research interests are related to the literary theory and hermeneutics, comparative literature, Macedonian and South Slavic literatures, critical theory and cultural studies, Balkan cultures and identities, intertextual and cross-aesthetic interpretation. The opus of Kulavkova contains a great variety of publications (over 60), as an author, editor or translator: poetry books, collections with selected poetry or novelistic short stories, books on literary theory, as well as anthology selections, several chrestomathies and collections, stories, dream-fictions, essay, criticism, edited books and translations (from French). She was awarded by the most important literary prizes in Macedonia and abroad (Romanian Writers’ Association, Albanian PEN), and was named ‘Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters’ by the French Government (2021). She is member of French PEN and honorary member of Turkish PEN center.